Rachel Delacour

Rachel Delacour is CEO and co-founder of BIME, a European startup that empowers businesses of any size to profit in era of Big Data. She is considered a subject matter expert on cloud computing, SaaS, BI, enterprise computing and Big Data. She has presented on stage at such leading industry events as: DEMO, GigaOm Structure: Data, Interop Enterprise Cloud Summit, Google I/O, American Marketing Association Conference and LeWeb. She is regularly interviewed and quoted by well-known outlets such as GigaOm and InformationWeek.

Now that Big Data has become a household name, 2014 will be the year
companies demand solid proof that data can help their decision-making and
their bottom line. As the entire web becomes a seamlessly connected data
warehouse, I predict that organizations will have the power at their
fingertips to connect and query dozens of data sources in the moment.
I have identified four key trends in business intelligence and cloud
computing for 2014:
1. The entire web becomes the data warehouse.
Companies large and small are finally able to say good riddance to big
capital expenditures in order to gain actionable insights from their data.
Until now, an organization had to develop a data warehouse architecture,
spend millions to build, maintain and upgrade it, and often fell victim to
vendor and technology lock-in.
Now cloud computing, and cloud BI in particular, change the gam... (more)

When I talk to CIOs, they usually complain that the trend of Bring Your Own
Device, or BYOD, is undermining their ability to keep their organization's
infrastructures and data secure. Every employee who comes to work with his or
her smartphone or tablet and pulls up sales reports, help tickets and other
corporate data creates a small hole in the IT armor companies have spent
billions to build. Over time, the argument goes, the holes become a dangerous
sieve.
My response to those worries: BYOD is a force of nature, so you better not
get in its way. And it's just raising the curta... (more)

Don't correct me if you've heard this one before: Information wants to be
free. The Internet, cloud services plus mobile devices offer limitless
possibilities to experience this freedom. With Big Data, information wants to
be relevant, too. There are now more mobile phones in the world than people,
so querying and interacting with data has become ubiquitous and affordable.
That vast ocean of structured and unstructured tidbits online is talking to
us. Are we listening?
The empowered consumer can discover nearly anything, anywhere and anytime
with a few taps or clicks. Consumers w... (more)